London's business airports, and prices you can actually read
Board figures from September 2026. The list further down is live.
The United Kingdom has 146 upcoming empty legs on our board, 94 leaving and 90 arriving, with 38 flying between two British airports. Unlike the United States, the operators here publish prices: 59 of the 146 carry one, mostly in pounds.
It is a London board. London is listed on 53 legs, Luton on 43, Biggin Hill on 15, Oxford on 8, Stansted on 3 and Farnborough on 6. A British airport appears 184 times across those 146 legs, and London's six fields are 128 of the 184. Birmingham at 25 and Belfast at 9 are the only other fields that matter. The most repeated corridor is Larnaca to London, six legs in each direction, then Athens to London at four.
Across the 49 legs priced in pounds the median aircraft is 13,000 and the median seat 1,278, the dearest seat of any country on these pages. The fleet explains some of it: Citation Latitude 33, Praetor 600 30, Legacy 500 26, mid-size and super-mid rather than the light jets that dominate Belgium and France. We have recorded 556 legs touching the country since the end of July.
Upcoming legs touching each British airport. The linked ones have their own page with the live list and everything we have recorded there.
The most repeated city pairs touching the UK, with the number of upcoming legs on each. Direction matters: an empty leg is one way and there is no return.
| Aircraft, as the operator names it | Legs |
|---|---|
| Citation Latitude | 33 |
| Embraer Praetor 600 | 30 |
| EMB-550 Legacy 500 | 26 |
| Learjet 45XR | 9 |
| Legacy 650 | 7 |
| Embraer Legacy 600 | 7 |
Operators write the type their own way, so the same aircraft can appear under two names. We show what they wrote.
Median of the operator's published price, and that price divided by the seats the operator listed, on upcoming legs touching the UK that carry both. Only currencies with at least three such legs.
| Currency | Legs | Aircraft | Per seat |
|---|---|---|---|
| GBP | 49 | 13,000 | 1,278 |
| EUR | 6 | 10,400 | 800 |
Per seat is a division, not a fare: the operator sells the aircraft. How that works across the whole board is in how much an empty leg private jet costs.
Read from our listings when you open the page, soonest first. Price is the operator's figure for the whole aircraft, or price on enquiry if they did not publish one.
| Departs | Route | Aircraft | Seats | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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A listing can be sold or withdrawn between our last check and your enquiry. Set an alert on a route and you hear first.
An empty leg is a flight a charter operator has to make anyway, to position an aircraft for a booking or to bring it home afterwards, sold at a discount because the alternative is flying it empty. The operator sets the route, the date and the aircraft. You fit into a flight that already exists, and it is one way: there is no return leg and no such thing as a return seat.
Everything on this page comes from British legs that operators published on their own websites. We read those sites several times a day and record each leg exactly as listed, route, date, aircraft, seats and the operator's own price where they gave one. We do not read brokers, we take no commission and enquiries go straight to the operator. A leg counts for the United Kingdom when either end resolves to a British airport, first by the airport code the operator gave and then by the city name, so a leg written as an airport name still lands in the right country.
The written figures above are a snapshot from September 2026 and are restated, not quietly edited, when we rerun them. The live list is the board as it stands now.
London's business airports. On our board London appears on 53 upcoming legs, Luton on 43, Biggin Hill on 15, Oxford on 8 and Farnborough on 6. Outside London, Birmingham has 25 and Belfast 9.
Across the 49 upcoming legs priced in pounds, the median published price is 13,000 pounds for the whole aircraft, which divided by the seats the operator listed is 1,278 pounds a seat. That per-seat figure only holds if you fill the cabin.
Yes, 38 of the 146 upcoming legs fly between two British airports, London Oxford to Birmingham and Belfast to Biggin Hill among them. The rest cross the Channel or the Irish Sea.